"Millions of dollars worth of bookings have been cancelled, the resort is completely empty"

This year's season was not very successful for Gudauri - said the founder of the Mountain Resorts Business Association, Miranda Esakia. According to his information, the season started very badly, because the resort met the tourists completely unprepared.

Speaking on Kommersant radio, Miranda Esakia notes that this year Gudauri was carrying garbage. In addition, the parking system could not be adjusted again, due to which vacationers had to stand in traffic jams for several hours.

"The business association requested a state audit report regarding the accounts of mountain resorts, and this year we will investigate it in more detail. Gudauri is the only resort that makes a profit, we are talking about several million here. The budget of Gudauri finances Svaneti, Goderdzi and Bakuriani. Thus, if the money that Gudauri earns stays in Gudauri, the problems that the resort has, There would be no road construction, no garbage removal, so this year we are going to apply to the government again o Audit and offer an alternative system of resort management to the state of economy. Gudauri is divided into two parts - one part belongs to Dusheti municipality, the other part belongs to Kazbegi municipality.

Responsibilities are so diffused that both sides are pointing fingers at each other. Therefore, we want to appeal to the state that this year Gudauri should be established as a separate administrative unit, so that the funds generated by the resort remain here, and we also know who to ask for an answer", says Miranda Esakia.

According to him, the number of high-spending tourists in Gudauri decreases every year, and business incomes decrease by 15-20% every year. However, this time the resort faced much more serious problems - in the middle of the conflict in the Middle East, in fact, all reservations were canceled.

"The full resort was suddenly emptied in one day and all reservations, millions of dollars worth of reservations were canceled, the resort is absolutely empty," says Miranda Esakia.

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